Here is a very fast fiddle tune played on a harmo custom shop model: Harmo custom shop takes it even a step further by letting you choose from many comb material (wood, aluminum, acrylic or brass) and covers (wood, aluminum, brass) as well as country tuning or standard tuning. The Harmo Torpedo is also a great option for Bluegrass and Country tunes as it is very airtight and set to trigger notes at the blink of an eye. Here is a bluegarss tune played on a Harmo Polar super country: The best harmonicas for country musicīlues, Rock, Folk, Country,… : Choose a Diatonic Harmonica
Harmo harmonicas offer a great choice of diatonic harmonicas that are perfect to play country music starting with the Harmo Polar super country-tuned a country tuning developed by harmonica virtuoso David Herzhaft. Several players copied or were influenced by his style and also became quite popular such as Norton Buffalo and Terry McMillan.Ĭountry harmonica is mostly played in first and second position. His early style was very much influenced by Jimmy Reed and Little Walter but soon after he started to emulate what his fellow Nashville studio musicians were doing and gave birth to the modern bluegrass and country-music harmonica style with fast licks stolen from fiddle, mandolin, steel-guitar players and adapted on the harmonica. In the 1960s a young player from Florida named Charlie McCoy went to Nashville to become the new sensation of country harmonica. In the 1940-50s Lonnie Glosson recorded with many artists and his style was very melodic and an extension of what singers would do. His playing was very ahead of his time mixing rhythm and solo phrases on the harmonica. Deford Bailey was the first harmonica player to be featured on the Grand ole Opry and was induced in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005. The term Country Music appeared in the 1940s but the genre was already well alive earlier on.
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